Death in the Wrong Room

This is the nineteenth in Gilbert's long-running series featuring the unscrupulous London solicitor Arthur Crook, one of the more unorthodox detectives of the Golden Age.

In the spring of 1946, shortly after the Second World War the domineering Lady Bate came to live at the Downs, built by the eccentric Col. Anstruther many years before. War conditions made it necessary for the Colonel's daughter to take in paying guests, but only Lady Bate knew the secret of her past life and the key to her mysterious hermit-like existence.

When, in due course, Lady Bate is found dead, a chance remark puts Arthur Crook on the right track, which he follows -- but at the risk of his life! Lady Bate's murder threatens to unravel secrets best kept buried. In Death in the Wrong Room, the talented Anthony Gilbert has written a first-rate detective story at once mystifying and well-constructed. It is a story which the legion of Crime Club readers will thoroughly enjoy.